Fantasy Tip: Zunino ($2,400, 4.8% of cap) is 6-for-19 with four doubles over the past week but he remains one of the worst starting catching options in baseball from an offensive standpoint. Avoid using him in FantasyScore.

Fantasy Tip: Zunino ($2,400, 4.8% of cap) has played in all but eight of the club's 95 games this season. He wouldn't be recommended as a viable FantasyScore option even if he was in Thursday's lineup, with a paltry .166 average and just nine home runs and 23 RBIs through 87 contests.

Fantasy Tip: Zunino ($2,400, 4.8% of cap) returns to action after getting a scheduled day off Saturday, July 4. He is just 2-for-18 over the past week and enters Sunday's contest hitting just .164. Avoid using him in FantasyScore.

Seattle Mariners C Mike Zunino has been identified as one of new hitting coach Edgar Martinez's top priorities, according to manager Lloyd McClendon. Zunino is hitting .158 this season with a .231 on-base percentage and is on pace to finish the year with 16 home runs and 36 RBIs.

Fantasy Tip: Zunino ($2,300, 4.6% of cap) has been one of the worst-hitting catchers in baseball over the last two seasons. In 2014, he hit an abysmal .199 with a .254 on-base percentage, 22 home runs and 60 RBIs. Avoid him in FantasyScore for the foreseeable future.

Seattle Mariners C Mike Zunino is hitting just .073 in June, with four singles and zero extra-base hits, entering Tuesday, June 23, against the Kansas City Royals. Manager Lloyd McClendon said the issue is partly mental and partly due to the fact that Zunino's hands are dropping and coming out in front of the ball.

Fantasy Tip: Zunino ($2,300, 4.6% of cap) shouldn't be owned on FantasyScore until he starts trending in the opposite direction.